At 12:23 2015-06-12, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 12:01 2015-06-12, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > Guess what came on my laptop. And it was the Home edition so
>> > XP Mode would not run on it.
>>
>> Home users needing to run 16-bit software I would imagine is a fairly
>> tiny segment of the market. And there's always VirtualBox.
> 1) Who says that home users are the only ones using the Home Edition?
> "Home Edition" is only a name. The laptop that I purchased came with the
> Home Edition. It can run a lot of business software including Visual
> FoxPro.
>
> 2) Microsoft broke 16-bit software on 64-bit Windows 7. Why couldn't
> they have just kept the functionality?
It's all Gene's fault.
16 bit SW in use today is few and far between. Seems that 64 bit is the
leader today and yes you can still find a lot of 32 bit too.
Ah, IT by popularity. Never mind whether the app meets the user's needs.
As a professional you should have considered the owners of the product have
depreciated XP some time back.
The word is "deprecated".
Are you still using Visual FoxPro? As a professional you
should consider the owners of the product deprecated Visual FoxPro
some time back. Well, are you "professional" by the standard that
you are trying to tie to me, or are you are a hypocrite?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirhenko
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